Academy’s Upper School treated audiences to a lively and heartfelt production of "Oliver! Jr." on May 9 and 10.

The story follows the titular orphan, who after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the ...

“The workhouse served as a refuge for the city ... Bristol is about a 120-mile drive west from London.

Expelled from the workhouse for having had the temerity to ask for more gruel, Oliver is placed as an apprentice to an undertaker, but is mistreated and runs away to London. Here he meets the ...

Adapted from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist by Lionel Bart, Oliver! follows an orphaned boy of the same name as he escapes the confines of the workhouse and finds refuge in the city’s underworld. Tunes ...

The names of thousands of people who entered the doors of a workhouse in County Tyrone are being remembered. In 1845, as poverty and starvation increased during the famine in Ireland, workhouses ...